Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.
No one ever suddenly became depraved.
It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
What day is so festal it fails to reveal some theft?
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.